frogs in chinatown market

[drache]

Juliet's mom has a car and took us to chinatown for dinner
the Brooklyn Chinatown that is
after dinner and the subsequent search for a tea house that hadn't run out of tapioca, we went to the market
it was after I'd made my purchases that the kids got me to come back in to look at the area where they keep the "live food"
of course I expected all the different kinds of crabs and lobsters
and I wasn't particularly surprised at the turtles
but the frogs . . .
there was a tub full of large dark colourless frogs
they were colourless in the same way as the turtles
in the way that fish are right after transport
in the way people can be after bad news
of course Juliet wanted to save all of them
I didn't really want to dwell there
at the same time the thought of food quality (?) frogs got me thinking . . .
next time I go I'll get pics

[Lori P]

Ugh! Froggy falafel... froggy fettuccine... froggy frijoles... froggy frappe...

[drache]

I like frog legs - I mean the way they're prepared by alsacians
what do they do with the rest of the frog though?

[Lori P]

Give him crutches and disabilty??

[anji1971]

I'm not sure, but my gut feeling tells me that the rest of the frog is just disposed of..............I don't think there are a whole lot of frog dishes out there. At least I've never seen any on the menu, other than frog legs. Doesn't bode well for the poor froggies.........:(

[stonyloam]

When I was a kid my brother and I would hunt frogs (Rana clamitans). The legs are the only edible parts. We would feed the rest to our many barn cats, except for the hearts. Those we would put into a dish in a saline solution and see how long we could keep them beating. We would get them going with jolt from a D-cell battery. Our record by the way is about 6 hours. There is not a lot to do on the farm.:D

[drache]

is there a reasonably humane method of killing a frog?
not that I need to now, but there may come a day when it could be handy to have a frog in the freezer

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

hmm thats a hard one you could take its back legs and hit it aginst a counter or something, you could cut of his head (but thats bloody) and you would have to feed the head seperatly, or you could freeze them alive

is there a reasonably humane method of killing a frog?
not that I need to now, but there may come a day when it could be handy to have a frog in the freezer

[brandon0133]

thats morbid,,,seeing how long a heart will beat after u remove it,,,lol

[Loren]

As far as humane killing of frogs, if you take a frog and drop him into scalding hot water, it dies in about 1 second or less, with its body completely extended in the perfect feeding position. Then I wrap them in plastic wrap to prevent freezer burn, and put them in a freezer bag. I am sure some may not call that humane, but its the fastest, most painless way I know of, and cant be any worse than "thumping".. I have only tried it with treefrogs.

[drache]

thanks Loren
I guess you fish the frog out of the scalding water right away, so it doesn't get cooked
these frogs are large, so my interest would be to freeze them in order to eventually grind them up for flavouring

[CrazyHedgehog]

except for the hearts. Those we would put into a dish in a saline solution and see how long we could keep them beating. We would get them going with jolt from a D-cell battery. Our record by the way is about 6 hours.

From now on you shall be refered to as Dr Frankenstien!!

[brandon0133]

i know thats right,,lol